Burdett entered the Irish House of Commons in 1704, sitting for County Carlow to 1713.[3] Subsequently, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Carlow until 1715 and then again for County Carlow until his death in 1727.[3] On 11 July 1723, Burdett was created a baronet, of Dunmore, in the County of Carlow, with a special remainder to the heirs of his sister Anne, wife of Walter Weldon, who sat also in the Parliament of Ireland.[4] In 1725, he was appointed Governor of County Carlow, a post he held for the next two years.[2]
He married firstly the twice-widowed Honora Boyle, daughter of Michael Boyle, Lord Chancellor of Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh and his second wife Mary O'Brien, in 1700.[2] She died ten years later and Burdett remarried Martha Vigors, daughter of Bartholomew Vigors, Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin and Martha Neale, in 1715.[2] He died, aged 58 and was succeeded by his only son, William, by his second wife.[5]
^ abJohnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2006). MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800. Ulster Historical Foundation. p. 74. ISBN1-903688-60-4.
^Beatson, Robert (1806). A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. III. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. p. 283.
^Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 179.